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This explains everything: deep, beautiful, and elegant theories of how the world works

By John , Brockman

Book information

Publisher
HarperCollins;Harper Perennial
ISBN
9780062230171, 0062230174, 9780062230188
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1239978 bytes)
Edition
Paperback ed
Pages
xx, 411 pages ; 21 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Explanation;Science

Description

Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world. What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"--The Guardian), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, neuroscience, and more, This Explains Everything presents 150 of the most surprising and brilliant theories of the way of our minds, societies, and universe work. Jared Diamond on biological electricity • Nassim Nicholas Taleb on positive stress • Steven Pinker on the deep genetic roots of human conflict • Richard Dawkins on pattern recognition • Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek on simplicity • Lisa Randall on the Higgs mechanism • BRIAN Eno on the limits of...

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